People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~Julien Green
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ~Richard Grant
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. ~James Thurber
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne
If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found. ~Author Unknown
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~George Moore
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ~Gelett Burgess
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. ~Amiel
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ~G.K. Chesterton
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. ~Author Unknown
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T. Jong
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ~Carol Shields
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. ~Joe Cordare
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ~St. Augustine
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ~Clifton Fadiman
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~Nelson Mandela
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ~Clifton Fadiman
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. ~Douglas Adams
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